Laurie King’s thoughts on the Anthropic settlement process.

The whole thing feels a bit silly, rather like one or two sales I’ve made to excitable Hollywood people that I knew full well would never make it even as far as a script, but if a check does arrive, it’ll be a very pleasant surprise. I’ll take my family to dinner, give some of it to Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and maybe buy a bottle of Veuve Clicquot so I can raise my glass to the settlement people. Who have some remarkably helpful people answering the lines, the handful of times I’ve had to phone for clarification and help.

So that’s me and Claude, and how I taught him to string together words.

(But no, I’m not going to ask him to write my books for me, thank you very much.)

What Laurie said. Follow her Substack here.

According to the Authors Guild, the Anthropic settlement checks begin dropping into authors’ bank accounts on November 23rd, eleven days from now. If and when the settlement appears, I’m with Laurie on the Veuve Clicquot.

In re the AG’s case against OpenAI, the AG reports that OpenAI execs knew that pirating our books was illegal, and did it anyway. We’re all hoping OpenAI takes the Anthropic settlement to heart and settles.

Previous posts on the Anthropic settlement.

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